On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Johannes Röhrs <johanne...@met.no> wrote: > > > Thanks a lot, this solutions seems to serve my purpose. A new method > C.remove() would of course be even better. > > One could say the problem is solved, but why does there no method exist to > update a contour plot as there is for many other plot routines, i.e. > set_xdata/set_ydata for plot > set_data for imshow or > set_UVC for quiver and so on. > set_array should be the corresponding method for contour plots, and if type > C.get_array() I actually get the data array that I used to plot the countours! > > My purpose of this is to animate the contour plot, and I did read somewhere > that updating the plot is much faster/more efficient than deleting and > recreating the plot.
This is the case when setting up the initial book-keeping is a significant portion of the time to make the plot. In this case, most of the work is in generating the contours, so I don't think you'd get much savings. (Granted, I haven't tried to verify these assumptions.) Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
